Christian Jacquement
32 route de Villemartin
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Christian's story is as simple as an arithmetic sequence: in 2001, his parents-in-law bought an 18th-century Carthusian monastery in the commune of Saint Magne et Castillon.
Anecdotes about the domain
To be a winegrower is above all to be respectful of the earth and the vine...it is to listen to it, to live with it day by day according to its needs and the weather, no day is the same....I work with the lunar calendar, the moon also imposes its rhythm on me,....My oenologists, great friends....at the beginning I had the impression that their technical speech was Chinese...;I said stop, or I'll do maths to you....My greatest daring is to have produced a single-varietal cuvée Mouna in Merlot, and to have fun every year with the Franc La Fleur blend by varying the percentages of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, each variety is aged individually in barrels, 12 to 24 months of maturation, and the day before bottling, I gather some friends and my oenologist, with whom we decide on the right taste...
The domain's short story
Christian's story is as simple as an arithmetic sequence. In 2001, his parents-in-law bought an 18th century Carthusian monastery in the commune of Saint Magne and Castillon, a professor of mathematics, and suggested that they plant one and a half hectares of vines on their property. Cartesian and thoughtful, Christian, the son of a tenant farmer, read Steiner's books on biodynamic principles.He then trained with friends, while continuing to teach mathematics, because it remains his primary profession, in his words "I needed a breath of air, and the vine provides it beyond what I had imagined" Planted in organic from the start, the vine is treated with chamomile, horsetail, Bordeaux mixture.The use of green manure, grassing of one row out of two, here we take incredible care of the vines, staking under the stocks, rolling up the shoots, making macerations and spraying, spreading cow dung, manual harvest.The first vintage of Château Franc La Fleur won the gold medal in the international competition and was selected in the Hachette guide. ..... But it is not the medals that Christian prefers, he is much more proud of being validated as having zero pesticides and an incredible level of polyphenols in the In Vina and Véritas guide, where he laughed out loud when Franck Dubourdieu, a great oenologist, compared it to the great Pomerols.where he found himself the favorite of the newspaper Le Monde on the day of his 50th birthday.....All his energy and passion can be found in his wines and in the pleasure of helping others discover them.....Today, Château Franc La Fleur, the smallest vineyard in the Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux appellation, makes the behemoths of the sector pale in comparison, proving that winegrowing without artifice, if not quantitative, can be extremely qualitative.Logical for a mathematics teacher!
The winemaker's pride
A brief history of the estate Le château FRANC LA FLEUR is a small wine-growing estate of 1ha50 in the Castillon Côtes De Bordeaux appellation. This vineyard was entirely planted in 2001 and has been organic since the beginning. It is made up of the three typical Bordeaux grape varieties, Merlot 70%, Cabernet Sauvignon 20% and Cabernet Franc 10%. Since the first harvest in 2004, the grapes have been harvested by hand, three successive sortings have been carried out before being placed in vats with buckets, vinification is carried out in 16 and 25 hl stainless steel vats, manual punching down is carried out twice a day during alcoholic fermentation, run-off into barrels after 3 weeks of maceration, maturing in 225 l barrels or 400l barrels from 12 to 24 months depending on the vintage.The wines of the estate are characterized by a very strong color, aromas of red fruits; blackberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, plums, as well as vanilla notes, in the mouth the fruit is very present, the tannins are extremely melted, at the end of the mouth these tannins remain with aromas of very ripe fruits such as cherries cherries...But my vintages all have their character...to discover
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